Hi!
A couple of weeks ago I found the rolling chasis of a Gazelle Sprinter bike abandoned on the street. The stem already unprofessionally removed and in an overall state of decline I decided to attempt a rescue...
My knowledge of Gazelle and in particular of the Sprinter modell still is insufficient but as far as I know it is basically a Raleigh Grand Prix labeled as Gazelle Sprinter and probably build in 1970.
As I am usually riding singlespeed/fixed gear bikes only, my idea of course was to transform the Gazelle into a sort of scorcher for light gravel and off road riding. So, the motto of course is:
It took me a while to remove all the parts hanging around leaving only the bare frame with some remaining parts on it.
I do not posses a tool for removing headsets, so this had to wait until my next with to my local bike shop but I wasn't concerned about it. More so, the crank and bottom bracket had already formed an alliance and I had to use brute force to get them off the frame in order to have access to the rest of the BB.
After this operation went successfully I attempted to remove the BB at the bike shop and with some help of a srew clamp I was able to get it out and the rest of the headset removed.
Unfortunately, it was only now that I discovered that the bridge between the seat stays had broken off at the soldered point.
But than again its nothing I am really worried about and I will get it re-brazed in the next weeks. Till then, I have a front wheel to build and some more parts to sort and hopefully with the first snow here in Berlin I will have it ready to rock n' road :xmas-big-grin:
For now, I wish all of you some good and relaxing days ahead!
Cheers
A couple of weeks ago I found the rolling chasis of a Gazelle Sprinter bike abandoned on the street. The stem already unprofessionally removed and in an overall state of decline I decided to attempt a rescue...
My knowledge of Gazelle and in particular of the Sprinter modell still is insufficient but as far as I know it is basically a Raleigh Grand Prix labeled as Gazelle Sprinter and probably build in 1970.
As I am usually riding singlespeed/fixed gear bikes only, my idea of course was to transform the Gazelle into a sort of scorcher for light gravel and off road riding. So, the motto of course is:
It took me a while to remove all the parts hanging around leaving only the bare frame with some remaining parts on it.
I do not posses a tool for removing headsets, so this had to wait until my next with to my local bike shop but I wasn't concerned about it. More so, the crank and bottom bracket had already formed an alliance and I had to use brute force to get them off the frame in order to have access to the rest of the BB.
After this operation went successfully I attempted to remove the BB at the bike shop and with some help of a srew clamp I was able to get it out and the rest of the headset removed.
Unfortunately, it was only now that I discovered that the bridge between the seat stays had broken off at the soldered point.
But than again its nothing I am really worried about and I will get it re-brazed in the next weeks. Till then, I have a front wheel to build and some more parts to sort and hopefully with the first snow here in Berlin I will have it ready to rock n' road :xmas-big-grin:
For now, I wish all of you some good and relaxing days ahead!
Cheers
